diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/timeout/HashedWheelTimer.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/timeout/HashedWheelTimer.java
index 4e2d4203f9..33d7b87f92 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/timeout/HashedWheelTimer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/timeout/HashedWheelTimer.java
@@ -255,7 +255,13 @@ public class HashedWheelTimer implements Timer {
                 fetchExpiredTimeouts(expiredTimeouts, i);
 
                 if (activeTimeouts.get() == 0) {
-                    // Exit the loop.
+                    // Exit the loop - the worker will be executed again if
+                    // there are more timeouts to expire.  Please note that
+                    // this block is protected by a write lock where all
+                    // scheduling operations are protected by a read lock,
+                    // which means they are mutually exclusive and there's
+                    // no risk of race conditions (i.e. no stalled timeouts,
+                    // no two running workers.)
                     return false;
                 }
             } finally {